The Institute for Bird Populations (IBP) conducts avian monitoring and research throughout the western United States, Texas, the Midwestern states and eastern states, mainly on land under the stewardship of the US Forest Service, Department of Defense, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service and US Fish and Wildlife Service. IBP coordinates data collection from mist-netting stations that operated as part of its Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) program.
IBP is using Data Basin to publish spatially-explicit results of research into MAPS data for two regional studies. This work is being carried out by two Data Basin groups:
